The United States censors more than China does, actually, so I don't know why it's not being reported as much when it happens in this country. Obviously, communist countries are going to censor your stuff. But when "democratic" countries do it, now that's the news that should be reported. What about those kids who got in trouble with the SS (secret service) when the sang a parody of a song, containing words "kill" and "clinton", etc? Bah.
Hasn't this happened before? Hasn't the FBI tried desperately to digitize all its crap and failed each time? I seem to remember this from a while ago...
Unless your payloads in transit happen to be large, armed nuclear weapons. Which, you all know, is certainly an application of such a device. Not that dropping an armed nuclear weapon would set it off (would it?), but you never know...
I remember Windows doing that, actually, when you pressed Ctrl+Alt+Del in the old '98 days. That is, whatever sound was playing would loop. Especially annoying if you couldn't get it to stop...
Wow, our society has changed. The concept of airliners being uninformed of the location of these cables or whatever they are is just plain stupid. Of course they will know that they're there. Not to mention, even if they didn't know, the chance of a collision is fabulously small.
People should be more worried about if this is the best way to spend money or not. Personally, I think it's a pretty sweet idea and I'd be totally for supporting it. Looks quite awesome, actually!
Sort of like real life...We don't like our friends to be perfect. We don't like anyone to be perfect, because that's just wrong. Things begin to feel unnatural and ugly. I mean, virtually anyone who has a best friend who's near-perfect absolutely despises him/her. Granted, for different reasons, but it all stems from the same concept.
And it's not like video games are an essential part of our functioning society (except for perhaps intensely helping the economy through the millions of dollars that travel around pointlessly) like other software is. That is, you don't want your Bank or your Hospital software to have "personality", now do you?
So I say this is a good thing. Let the games be imperfect. Let them have flaws. Not because it builds "character" or anything, but becase it more closely relates to reality. Okay, okay, this isn't always a good thing. But we don't want our kids (wait, sorry, this is/., we don't have kids) to grow up expecting their real lives to be as "perfect" as their video games. Or is this already happening?
Perhaps the article IS precise, or was at the time of writing? You know,/. has normal news stories. Not news stories that are updated every nanosecond to stay accurate...
That's kinda how North America (and many, many other parts of the world) became what they are today. If people had that spirit a few hundred years ago, the United States of America would not exist (for better or for worse).
So, with any luck, all humans will soon be extinct?! I like this idea! I mean, the world would be so much nicer without people on it, when you think about it, and all the damange we've done. It brings up the question, "If you could press a button, and kill all humans on the planet (painlessly), would you?"
Being a Star Wars fan as well as an Indiana Jones fan, I am of the opinion that Harrison Ford has been one of the best actors recent movies have seen. Though I suppose it could be debated that he's a bit old for the role, I'm still quite happy to see this!
When Lucas came back to Star Wars, it took him six years to get it right again. Lets hope Indiana Jones can do it a tad better....
until the United States adopts these practices. Or maybe they already have...look out, terrorists!
whatever the case, the Cult of the Dead Cow are probably cheering over the wonderful news.
But seriously, that's kinda freaky. I mean, yeah, I'd love to have spaceship parts in my backyard, but has anyone read The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton? Ouch...
I didn't say I was all above everyone else and that I'm divine and I'm not selfish and all that junk. I was just making a comment on our society. jeeze.
how nobody spends their money in ways that could help others. Microsoft alone could solve the world's hunger problems. They could cure all the curable diseases. They could save the 33,000 kids that are dying every day because they're hungry.
Okay, okay, we all know MS doesn't give a flying piece of bird crap about people, no matter who they are. But still, it's really sick to see some of the things on which they spend their money...
If I were a millionaire, I'd probably do the same thing. So call me a hyprocrite. It just makes me feel sick.
Cryptography is in a desperate state right now. Virtually every product that needs to include it has in implemented in such a way that it's basically useless. And so quantum crypto is rolling in more and more these days with newer and better discoveries (like the one here) coming out periodically. However, yeah, it's great, w00t, applications for quantum crypto, etc, but that doesn't really mean much. We already have messages that are unbreakable through brute-force. All that needs improvement through our crypto is more secure ways of entering information into computers and sending it without screwing up by keeping the message in RAM, storing it in a temp file, etc.
So sure, the ability to flip the electron spin is great for quantum cryptography itself, but...how does that help anyone, really?
One of the main reasons I stay away from Windows is the extremely poor window management. Hence the reason I'm using GNOME with six virtual desktops. And I can have dozens of web pages open and still take only one spot on my bottom panel.
My point is that "tabbed browsing" is not a god-like feature. It's just something that helps with a user's window management (the ability to be able to have a bunch of web pages open at one time without making a huge mess is NOT a web browser problem, it's an entire usability issue for the whole machine).
Yes, I know there are attempts at virtual desktops in Windows, but they all suck. I've tried them. They're either too slow, don't work properly (ie, they leave the minimized windows on the task bar the entire time...I don't get how thatworks).
Autocomplete is a useless feature that nobody wants to see when the type "a"...and see it load everything that beings with "a". The user is not interested in items starting with "a". Perhas they're interested in terms beging with "anon" or something, which has many fewer items to load, therefore making the load time much faster and not annoying the user in the process.
Or, even better, never have any autocomplete turned on automatically. Do a VB-like idea, where if you want to see possibilities at a certain point, hit a specific key that will register for the list to pop down.
Hey, if you were on the committee deciding how to spend the new money you got on the defence budget, wouldn't you want to spend it on some fun war-style games? That way, you can pretend there's a disaster and save the world without the whole mess of killing lots of Americans. Much more fun. I bet you that more money is spent on the lunches of the people involved in this than money spent on ACTUAL foriegn aid (not money called foreign aid sent to the pockets of other politicians, real foreign aid). And I'm not joking.
The NSA cannot break PGP. Nobody can, not ever. They can figure out the information you have hidden, though, because there's a very, very high chance that there's a copy of the information floating around unencrypted (RAM, swapped to the HDD, in a temp folder somewhere, etc) or a copy of your password floating around. That's how it would be done.
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The United States censors more than China does, actually, so I don't know why it's not being reported as much when it happens in this country. Obviously, communist countries are going to censor your stuff. But when "democratic" countries do it, now that's the news that should be reported. What about those kids who got in trouble with the SS (secret service) when the sang a parody of a song, containing words "kill" and "clinton", etc? Bah.
There was a book published with this exact title many, many years ago.
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/031
In short, there's no science in the movies at all. None. And everyone should know that.
Hasn't this happened before? Hasn't the FBI tried desperately to digitize all its crap and failed each time? I seem to remember this from a while ago...
Unless your payloads in transit happen to be large, armed nuclear weapons. Which, you all know, is certainly an application of such a device. Not that dropping an armed nuclear weapon would set it off (would it?), but you never know...
I remember Windows doing that, actually, when you pressed Ctrl+Alt+Del in the old '98 days. That is, whatever sound was playing would loop. Especially annoying if you couldn't get it to stop...
Wow, our society has changed. The concept of airliners being uninformed of the location of these cables or whatever they are is just plain stupid. Of course they will know that they're there. Not to mention, even if they didn't know, the chance of a collision is fabulously small.
People should be more worried about if this is the best way to spend money or not. Personally, I think it's a pretty sweet idea and I'd be totally for supporting it. Looks quite awesome, actually!
Sort of like real life...We don't like our friends to be perfect. We don't like anyone to be perfect, because that's just wrong. Things begin to feel unnatural and ugly. I mean, virtually anyone who has a best friend who's near-perfect absolutely despises him/her. Granted, for different reasons, but it all stems from the same concept.
/., we don't have kids) to grow up expecting their real lives to be as "perfect" as their video games. Or is this already happening?
And it's not like video games are an essential part of our functioning society (except for perhaps intensely helping the economy through the millions of dollars that travel around pointlessly) like other software is. That is, you don't want your Bank or your Hospital software to have "personality", now do you?
So I say this is a good thing. Let the games be imperfect. Let them have flaws. Not because it builds "character" or anything, but becase it more closely relates to reality. Okay, okay, this isn't always a good thing. But we don't want our kids (wait, sorry, this is
Perhaps the article IS precise, or was at the time of writing? You know, /. has normal news stories. Not news stories that are updated every nanosecond to stay accurate...
That's kinda how North America (and many, many other parts of the world) became what they are today. If people had that spirit a few hundred years ago, the United States of America would not exist (for better or for worse).
So, with any luck, all humans will soon be extinct?! I like this idea! I mean, the world would be so much nicer without people on it, when you think about it, and all the damange we've done. It brings up the question, "If you could press a button, and kill all humans on the planet (painlessly), would you?"
anyone remember the good old drake equation?
Being a Star Wars fan as well as an Indiana Jones fan, I am of the opinion that Harrison Ford has been one of the best actors recent movies have seen. Though I suppose it could be debated that he's a bit old for the role, I'm still quite happy to see this!
When Lucas came back to Star Wars, it took him six years to get it right again. Lets hope Indiana Jones can do it a tad better....
The algae are alive, too!
until the United States adopts these practices. Or maybe they already have...look out, terrorists!
whatever the case, the Cult of the Dead Cow are probably cheering over the wonderful news.
But seriously, that's kinda freaky. I mean, yeah, I'd love to have spaceship parts in my backyard, but has anyone read The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton? Ouch...
I didn't say I was all above everyone else and that I'm divine and I'm not selfish and all that junk. I was just making a comment on our society. jeeze.
how nobody spends their money in ways that could help others. Microsoft alone could solve the world's hunger problems. They could cure all the curable diseases. They could save the 33,000 kids that are dying every day because they're hungry.
Okay, okay, we all know MS doesn't give a flying piece of bird crap about people, no matter who they are. But still, it's really sick to see some of the things on which they spend their money...
If I were a millionaire, I'd probably do the same thing. So call me a hyprocrite. It just makes me feel sick.
Really? You haven't heard anything? That's strange, 'cause it's all over the news, especially in the context of cryptography...
& q=quantum+computing&btnG=Search+News
140 google news stories.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8
Cryptography is in a desperate state right now. Virtually every product that needs to include it has in implemented in such a way that it's basically useless. And so quantum crypto is rolling in more and more these days with newer and better discoveries (like the one here) coming out periodically. However, yeah, it's great, w00t, applications for quantum crypto, etc, but that doesn't really mean much. We already have messages that are unbreakable through brute-force. All that needs improvement through our crypto is more secure ways of entering information into computers and sending it without screwing up by keeping the message in RAM, storing it in a temp file, etc.
So sure, the ability to flip the electron spin is great for quantum cryptography itself, but...how does that help anyone, really?
As it happens, yes I have tried that one. It's horrible. I stand by my previous point.
One of the main reasons I stay away from Windows is the extremely poor window management. Hence the reason I'm using GNOME with six virtual desktops. And I can have dozens of web pages open and still take only one spot on my bottom panel.
My point is that "tabbed browsing" is not a god-like feature. It's just something that helps with a user's window management (the ability to be able to have a bunch of web pages open at one time without making a huge mess is NOT a web browser problem, it's an entire usability issue for the whole machine).
Yes, I know there are attempts at virtual desktops in Windows, but they all suck. I've tried them. They're either too slow, don't work properly (ie, they leave the minimized windows on the task bar the entire time...I don't get how thatworks).
Autocomplete is a useless feature that nobody wants to see when the type "a"...and see it load everything that beings with "a". The user is not interested in items starting with "a". Perhas they're interested in terms beging with "anon" or something, which has many fewer items to load, therefore making the load time much faster and not annoying the user in the process.
Or, even better, never have any autocomplete turned on automatically. Do a VB-like idea, where if you want to see possibilities at a certain point, hit a specific key that will register for the list to pop down.
Hey, if you were on the committee deciding how to spend the new money you got on the defence budget, wouldn't you want to spend it on some fun war-style games? That way, you can pretend there's a disaster and save the world without the whole mess of killing lots of Americans. Much more fun. I bet you that more money is spent on the lunches of the people involved in this than money spent on ACTUAL foriegn aid (not money called foreign aid sent to the pockets of other politicians, real foreign aid). And I'm not joking.
Certainly modified. The original is "640KB ought to be enough for anyone" - Bill Gates
gtkpod has been doing this for...years! So, if AOL comes out with something that's already exsist, it's news? Wow, what is our world coming to...
The NSA cannot break PGP. Nobody can, not ever. They can figure out the information you have hidden, though, because there's a very, very high chance that there's a copy of the information floating around unencrypted (RAM, swapped to the HDD, in a temp folder somewhere, etc) or a copy of your password floating around. That's how it would be done.